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Double T-Bone

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Something has changed about the way people are driving. I’m convinced of that. Maybe it’s another element of the Fourth Turning.

A little over a month ago, I was t-boned, as I wrote about. The person who hit me was a middle-aged woman who lives in the neighborhood. She seemed nice enough – – the sort of person who might be an elementary school librarian – – but was also pretty clueless. She caused me financial and emotional damage by way of her recklessness. I’m dealing with them both to this very moment.

This Sunday morning, only a little while earlier than I am typing these very words, I was a witness to the exact same accident. A perfectly innocent man was driving across an intersection (just like I had been) and was hit full speed by a clueless middle-aged woman (just like my situation).

He didn’t do anything wrong, and she blew right through the red light. I watched ever millisecond of it, and I saw it coming well in advance of the smash-up, and my sense is that she wasn’t trying to beat the light…………..but that she’s just a dipshit. Anyway, here’s the result:

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